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To: jbe who wrote (234)	10/17/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

> P.S. And on looking at your opening post again, I must say (perhaps I am just being dim) that I still do not get the impression from it that you only expected us to make nominations, while you would decide which nominees would make the final cut. Phooey on that. :-) < Agreed. A rejection should have more, and more visible, due process attached than "I don't think so". This thread should be the typical Coffee Shop free-for-all. I do not subordinate my posts here and their ideas to another's approval.

To: jbe who wrote (234)	10/17/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

This is what I said:"I will try to keep track of the various suggestions, and will eventually try to compose a "Thread List". Of course, my selections or placement may lead to further argument, and a proliferation of lists."... I am not just composing a list because that is the not the point, the point is to get discussions going....I agree that I will have to include some figures about whom I am ambivalent, but I am trying encourage discussion...

To: jbe who wrote (234)	10/18/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

>>Then why don't you just make a list of your Favorite Figures of the 20th Century? Marilyn Monroe and Ursula Undress. >>Keynes was clearly just about the most INFLUENTIAL economist of the 20th century, whether one approves of Keynsianism or not. I thought Keynes and Keynesianism were put to rest when Richard Nixon famously declared that "We're all Keynesians now". What was that, 1971? Of course, many argue that the politicians distorted Keynesianism. Still, you cannot quite get past Keynes's own declaration "In the long run we're all dead" as a paean to such. (Keynes's justification for not studying long run effects.)